Sunday, June 17, 2012

In the sixth inning, a Dodgers run actually got taken off the board, after the White Sox successfully appealed that Matt Treanor had taken off early from third on Elian Herrera's sac fly. Third base umpire Jerry Meals told Mattingly that he was "100%" about the play, even though the replay showed he was wrong and NOT EVEN LOOKING AT THE PLAY.

With this crazy Dodgers team, though, even getting hosed like that can't stop them. They tied it up properly in the ninth on almost the exact same play, as Bobby Abreu scored from third on a shallow Juan Rivera fly ball.

That set up a little Father's Day magic in the tenth, as sons of major leaguers Tony Gwynn, Jr. (triple) and Dee Gordon (clean RBI single to left) teamed up to hand the Dodgers a walk-off win.

Dodgers move to 5-4 in interleague, 42-25 overall, and 5 games ahead of the Giants, who just lost to the Mariners.

Umpires suck. Get rid of them and replace them with electronic droids...they can't get much worse. When the ump reviews the tape that shows he's a BIG FAT LIAR, he needs to take out a full-page ad in the LA Times apologizing to Donnie, the team and all the Dodgers fans... then I'll let them stay....

"It's the human element!" With the play at 1B in Colorado idk how they can defend this crap anymore. Ok you want to keep the umps, but at least let them have conferences, rate them on their performance, have the best of the best in the postseason and a bit more replay, otherwise why shouldn't we be for a computer calling the game?